

The 2.8/85 is not one of those, unfortunately - slow lenses faded from fashion, likely due to whims of bokeh fanatics who photograph fence posts and flowers. The Milvus line, made for Nikon F and Canon EF mounts, boasts a number of lenses whose optical design dates all the way back to the Contax Zeiss line. Zeiss, of course, makes many of its own lenses for numerous mounts today - Otus, Batis, Milvus, Touit, along with a few others like their M-mount line. Zeiss - easily the most highly revered lens maker alongside Leica at the time - had worked with Contax dating back to the 1930s when it designed and produced lenses for the Contax rangefinders. These SLR lenses, made by Carl Zeiss in cooperation with Yashica, were designed for the Yashica and Contax C/Y mount 35mm cameras. There really doesn’t exist a line of affordable vintage lenses that I love more than the Contax Zeiss lenses. W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2.5 LTM and W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/3.5 LTMīest Use Cases: Mirrorless, Canon EF ( Simmod or plain adapter), Nikon F, and Pentax K ( Leitax) Credit: KEH Camera.Nikon Nikkor AI 45mm f/2.8 P & Contax Zeiss 2.8/45mm Tessar.The significantly thinner sensor stack of the Nikon Z mount allows it to perform much better than, say, Sony E mount - about 1.0-1.5mm versus roughly 2-3mm respectively, according to Kolari Vision and Roger Cicala in Petapixel’s previous article on sensor stack thickness.

However, some non-Leica cameras perform better in this regard than others.

This can produce with images that have soft, smeary corner performance and color shifts due to the shorter exit pupil distance and angle of incidence of wider angle lenses. In this Guide, I have tried to avoid wider (wider than 35mm) focal length rangefinder lenses, as these typically do not work well with many non-Leica mirrorless cameras due to the sensor stack on digital sensors - which film, of course, did not have - and the lack of off-set microlenses.
MIRRORLESS CAMERA RETRO FULL
Some will only work with their full focus range on mirrorless cameras - this is noted when it is the case. The older Nikon Z50 currently sells for around $850 USD, body only, or $900 USD with a basic kit lens, and you can expect a slightly higher price for the Nikon Zfc Nikon Rumors claims $999 USD (with a kit lens included).Some of these lenses will work on both DSLRs (though this may exclude or have caveats for certain DSLRs, like Nikon F, due to flange distance differences) and mirrorless cameras. While the Zfc is still only a rumored camera, and while the announcement and release date are technically unknown, Nikon Rumors is pushing a June 28th announcement date and expects the camera to begin shipping on July 31st. And with the Zfc, you’ll get the best of both worlds: the tactile, mechanical ergonomics of a film camera, combined with the impressive speed and efficiency of a 2021 mirrorless camera.
MIRRORLESS CAMERA RETRO PLUS
I’m a big fan of film-inspired designs, myself – the dials force you to slow down and really appreciate your settings, plus they make everything feel more real. But as film (and Fujifilm) shooters know, the photography experience on a retro-style body is wildly different from what you get on a standard DSLR or mirrorless camera.
